Improvement in disintegrating solution for gold and silver bearing ores



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN'J. LUDI, OF SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO.

IMPROVEMENT lN DISINTEGRATlNG SOLUTION FOR GOLD AND SILVER BEARING ORES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [88,714, dated March 27, 1877 application filed December 26, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. LUDI, of the city and county of Santa F, in the Territory of New Mexico, have discovered a new and- Improved Di sintegrating Solution for Treating Gold and Silver Bearing Ores preliminary to the usual process of amalgamation, which is fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to that class of solutions into which gold and silver bearing ores are discharged in a highly-heated condition for the purpose of disintegrating, and thus rendering themeasy to amalganiate.

To prepare the bath or solution, take eightyfive (85) gallons of water, fourteen (14) gallons of strong vinegar, thirty (30) pounds of salt, two ounces of sulphuric acid, three (3) ounces of by any of the usual amalgamation processes.

I claim as my invention- A disintegrating solution for gold and silver bearing ores, consisting of salt, vinegar, sulphuric and nitric acids, caustic potash, and

water, prepared substantially in the manner herein set forth.

, JOHN J. LUDI. WVitnesses:

WILLIAM (J. HAZLEDINE, WM. BREEDEN. 

